Hacker News top 30 - 2026-04-30
- Zed 1.0 zed.dev - 581 comments 1802 points
- HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing github.com - 470 comments 1105 points
- Copy Fail copy.fail - 336 comments 900 points
- Cursor Camp neal.fun - 141 comments 890 points
- Online age verification is the hill to die on x.com - 588 comments 879 points
- We need a federation of forges blog.tangled.org - 356 comments 564 points
- Soft launch of open-source code platform for government www.nldigitalgovernment.nl - 124 comments 538 points
- Where the goblins came from openai.com - 258 comments 507 points
- Mistral Medium 3.5 mistral.ai - 213 comments 458 points
- HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub ’no longer a place for serious work’ www.theregister.com - 227 comments 400 points
- FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies www.agwa.name - 76 comments 330 points
- Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years jivx.com - 89 comments 322 points
- Maryland becomes first state to ban surveillance pricing in grocery stores www.theguardian.com - 189 comments 294 points
- Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them www.bbc.com - 212 comments 276 points
- Laws of UX lawsofux.com - 36 comments 260 points
- Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown www.chrisbrunet.com - 78 comments 252 points
- An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce github.com - 109 comments 246 points
- OpenTrafficMap opentrafficmap.org - 55 comments 241 points
- He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn’t give the same answer twice www.diabettech.com - 296 comments 238 points
- The Zig project’s rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy simonwillison.net - 94 comments 221 points
- Why I still reach for Lisp and Scheme instead of Haskell jointhefreeworld.org - 109 comments 219 points
- Craig Venter has died www.jcvi.org - 38 comments 216 points
- Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things rip.so - 112 comments 171 points
- “People who don’t use AI will be left behind” migrainebrain.bearblog.dev - 217 comments 157 points
- GitHub – DOS 1.0: Transcription of Tim Paterson’s DOS Printouts github.com - 9 comments 142 points
- Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained read.thecoder.cafe - 67 comments 130 points
- Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world prm.ua - 92 comments 128 points
- Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing blog.jeffschomay.com - 29 comments 128 points
- Ramp’s Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials www.promptarmor.com - 40 comments 127 points
- Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs github.com - 81 comments 120 points
April 30, 2026 ∙